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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yelov have a great talent for?
(a) learning languages
(b) writing poetry
(c) doing magic tricks
(d) making speeches

2. What were Yelov and Pogossian forever doing to each other?
(a) having eating contests
(b) having continual fist fights
(c) forever exchanging faux insults and barbs in fun
(d) challenging each other's knowledge of literature

3. Why did the expedition travel towards Bagdad instead of going as previously planned to the Persian Gulf?
(a) They had run out of food.
(b) Karpenko and Prince Nijeradze had fallen ill
(c) They had heard about a wise old priest with a secret to share
(d) They decided the origiinal journey was too dangerous.

4. What are Soloviev's early vices?
(a) street fighting and gambling
(b) drinking and stealing from his mother
(c) gluttony and cruelty to animals
(d) lying and cheating in school

5. What did Yelov think about his father?
(a) He loved him more than life itself
(b) He looked up to him and honored him
(c) He thought he was a petty, vain and willful man.
(d) He was extremely proud of his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Gurdjieff meet Karpenko?

2. Whom do Gurdjieff and Skridlov meet in Afridis?

3. What does Gurdjieff do in Rome?

4. What finally happens to Vitvitskaia?

5. What school was Ekim Bey attending when Gurdjieff met him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Ekim Bey's father indebted to Gurdjieff?

2. Whom does Gurdjieff promise the Prince to escort from Constantinople to Russia and what does he think of that person when he meets her?

3. What does Gurdjieff remember about Yelov?

4. Where does Gurdjieff meet the Prince again after two years of thinking him dead?

5. How does Karpenko die?

6. What do Gurdjieff and his friends decide to do together?

7. What does Ekim Bey later study that brings in money?

8. What do Skridlov and Gurdjieff disguise themselves as and how?

9. Where does Gurdjieff meet Ekim Bey and under what circumstances?

10. What does Yelov comment on that gives Gurdjieff an idea for making more money.

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